Month: December 2018

New James Bond-themed video slot machines have landed at Southern California casinos (courtesy of Pechanga Resort & Casino). New James Bond-themed video slot machines have landed at Southern California casinos. (Courtesy of Pechanga Resort & Casino) The chimes and clangs of slot machines greet all patrons on a casino floor, but it’s becoming more likely that they’ll hear some...
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California TodayImageDonald Moffat as a corrupt president of the United States in “Clear and Present Danger” (1994), perhaps the most memorable of his many film roles.CreditCreditParamount Pictures/PhotofestGood morning.(Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.)We hope you have a fabulous New Year’s Eve tonight — and if you’re out celebrating, make…
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ImageA Waymo autonomous vehicle in Chandler, Ariz., where the driverless cars have been attacked by residents on several occasions.CreditCreditCaitlin O'Hara for The New York TimesCHANDLER, Ariz. — The assailant slipped out of a park around noon one day in October, zeroing in on his target, which was idling at a nearby intersection — a self-driving…
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VideoThe Massachusetts senator is the most prominent Democrat to have announced a run against President Trump in 2020. The two already have a long history of trading barbs, and it’s likely to get even nastier.Published OnDec. 31, 2018CreditCreditMichael Dwyer/Associated PressSenator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat and a sharp critic of big banks and unregulated capitalism,…
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Politics|Democrats Make a Plan to End the Government Shutdown, Without Wall FundingImageRepresentative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, has asserted that Democrats would not cave on the issue of wall funding.CreditCreditErin Schaff for The New York TimesWASHINGTON — House Democrats have agreed on a proposal to end the partial government shutdown that would extend current levels…
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(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.)Good morning,We start the final day of 2018 with the continuing government shutdown, Senator Elizabeth Warren’s preparations for 2020, and an investigation into the C.I.A.’s shadow war in Afghanistan.Both sides dig in on budget impasse With the partial government shutdown now in its second week, President…
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America’s allies and enemies alike will place their 2019 foreign policy bets on a hunch: whether or not President Trump will win a second term in 2020.Despite the troublesome tweets and sometimes reprehensible rhetoric, in practice the Trump administration has largely stood by its friends and stiff-armed its enemies.But the 2020 elections raise a big…
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As we head into 2019, America’s decades-long fight against the global jihad continues. The names and players shift, but the enemy is consistent in its desire to push an oppressive and violent version of Islam worldwide.The U.S. military had a good year in 2018, with some impressive victories – especially against ISIS in Iraq and…
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A major arrow remains in President Trump’s quiver as the partial government shutdown drags on: He should address the nation from the Oval Office’s Resolute Desk regarding the border wall.This event would give the president perhaps a half-hour of America’s undivided on today’s biggest topic. Cable news networks certainly would carry this speech live. So…
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Just before Christmas, the United States Senate passed the First Step Act -- a bold, bipartisan, and transformative criminal justice reform package that lawmakers had been calling for for decades.Days later, the Senate passed the Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act (WEEE Act), also on a bipartisan basis. The new law ensures that U.S. development aid…
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